Modern Screen (Feb - Oct 1933 (assorted issues))

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The Borden Company, Dept. 135, 350 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Please send me — free — "Health for Baby and You." Name AddressCity State_ Plcate print name and address plainly DIRECTORYof PICTURES . . . It's foolish to see a movie without some idea of whether or not it's the type of thing that will appeal to you. These brief reviews will give you just that idea— and save you time and money RECOMMENDED. • • SPECIALLY RECOMMENDED. • ADORABLE (Fox) — Reviewed in seclion starting on page 6. • • ANIMAL KINGDOM (RKO)— Ann Harding. Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy and William Gargan in a sophisticated story of modern upper-class folk. Excellent — but children won't be much interested. • BABY FACE (Warner)— How a girl from poor surroundings wins her way to the toil — not always by fair means — and falls in love at the critical moment of her ambitious life. Very good — but not for children. • • THE BARBARIAN (M-G-M) — Another sheik story with a lovely civilized girl falling in love with the handsome dark-skinned Arabian. Ramon Novarro is the sheik and Myrna Loy the girl. Very good romantic stuff— dull for children, though. O BED OF ROSES (RKO) — Reviewed in section starting on page 6. • BE MINE TONIGHT (Universal)— A film from Europe in which there is some comedy, loads of singing and not much story. Very good if you like singing — children may like parts of it. THE BIG BRAIN ( KBS-Tiffany) — Reviewed in section starting on page 6. • • CAVALCADE (Fox)— What thirty years— from 1900 to the present day — did to an English family and their servants. Even though the story takes place in England you can't fail to be interested because it is so human. Excellent — okay for children. CENTRAL AIRPORT (First National) — Airplane story with Richard Barthelmess, Sally Eilers and Tom Brown. Fair — children will be thrilled by the action stuff. CHRISTOPHER STRONG (RKO-Radio) — A young girl flyer falls in love with a prominent married man and he with her. Their efforts not to yield to their love make the story. Katharine Henim n is the flyer. Very good— children will be apt to get bored, though. THE CIRCUS QUEEN MURDER (Columbia)— Reviewed in section starting on page 6. CITY HALL (Wm. Berke) — Drama of political life and all its intrigues. Good — okay but not very exciting for children. • • CLEAR ALL WIRES (M-G-M)— A foreign newspaper correspondent who decides to manufacture news — with some surprising and disconcerting results. Lee Tracy is the newspaper correspondent. Good — okay for the kiddies. • • THE COHENS AND THE KELLYS IN TROU BLE (Universal) — Charles Murray and George Sidney in another one of these comedy series. Very good if you enjoy the series — the kids will find some laughs in it. • DESTINATION UNKNOWN (Universal)— A rumrunner is lost at sea with thirteen people on board. An unknown man suddenly appears and leads the ship back to safety — and then disappears. His effect on the thirteen people constitutes the story. Very good — but children will be bored. • • DINNER AT EIGHT (M-G-M) — Another one of those marvelous real all-star pictures — like "Grand Hotel." This has Marie Dressier. Wallace Beery, John and Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Jean Harlow, Billie Burke, Madge Evans and others. Very good — but children will be bored. « DIPLOMANIACS (RKO> Another WheelerWoolsey comedy. Great for kids. • • THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK (Paramount) — Fredric March, Jack Oakie and Cary Grant in airplane story with the war as a background. The story isn't terribly exciting but there ave some excellent air scenes in it. Good — and quite okay for kids. • ELMER THE GREAT (Warner)— Joe E. Brown in a baseball yarn. Very good if you're a Joe E. Brown fan. Perfect for the kids. • EMERGENCY CALL (RKO) — Reviewed in section starting on page 6. EX-LADY (Warner) — Young love and its struggle for complete and perfect happiness. Gene Raymond and Bette Davis. Good — but not for children. • • FAREWELL TO ARMS (Paramount) — Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes in a love story which happened during the stirring days of the war. Excellent— but the children should be left at home. • « FORTY-SECOND STREET (Warners) — The musical which has made such a tremendous bit. Bebe Daniels. Warner Baxter, Dick Powell. Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers, George Brent and others are in it. Excellent— okay for children. • FRISCO JENNY (Warners)— Ruth Chatterton as a tough girl of the old days and her son who grew up to become the unknowing enemy of his mother. Very good — but send the children to a Western. • FROM HELL TO HEAVEN (Paramount)— Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie. David Manners and Adri enne Ames in an amusing race track story. Very good— okay for the kids. • • GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (M-G-M) — Imaginative story of a president who saves the U. S. from the brink of disaster. Walter Huston is the president. Francbot Tone and Karen Morley are also in it. Excellent — good for the young ones, too. • GIRL IN 419 (Paramount) — The melodramati goings-on in a police hospital. The action center about a girl who is brought in suffering from severe beating inflicted by her gangster boy-friend. David Manners, James Dunn and others are in the cast. Very good — okay for children. • • GOLDDIGGERS OF 1933 (Warners)— Reviewed in section starting on page 6. • * HELL BELOW (M-G-M) — Robert Montgom ery, Walter Huston, Robert Young, MadgeEvans and Jimmie Durante in story of the men who go down to the ocean in submarines. Excellent — kids will love it. HEROES FOR SALE (Warner)— Reviewed in section starting on page 6. HUMANITY (Fox) — The struggle between a doctor and his son — the old man believing in old-fashioned doctoring while the young man believes in the "profiteering" end of the profession. Poor. • • I COVER THE WATERFRONT (United Art ists)— If you read and liked the book you'll be disappointed in the picture as the story has been changed quite a lot. But if you'll forget the book and get set for an hour's entertainment of good melodrama you'll have a good time. Ben Lyon and Claudette Colbert head the cast. Very good — okay for the kiddies. • I LOVE THAT MAN (Paramount) Nancy Carroll and Edmund Lowe in the story of a gal and her man and how she tries and tries and tries to make him go straight. Good — okay for children. • INFERNAL MACHINE (Fox)— All about a set of people on board an ocean liner who are led to believe that there is a bomb on board which will explode at a certain time. Much excitement from their expectations. Very good "unusual" stuff — okay for the kiddies. • INTERNATIONAL HOUSE ( Paramount) — Reviewed in section starting on page 6. • JENNIE GERHARDT (Paramount) — Reviewed in section starting on page 6. THE KEYHOLE (Warners) — A wealthy husband's jealousy, a former husband's unexpected return, the detective the wealthy man has hired to watch his wife and the wife's romance with the detective make up the story. Fair — not amusing for children. • THE KING OF THE ARENA ( Maynard-Universal) — Reviewed in section starting on page 6. THE KISS BEFORE THE MIRROR (Universal) — An attorney swears that if he can acquit a friend who has murdered his wife for infidelity he. the attorney, will kill his wife — who, too, has been unfaithful. He does acquit his friend and then — . Fair — not for children. • A LADY'S PROFESSION ( Paramount) — Two members of the English nobility — Alison Skipwortli and Roland Young — come to America and get mixed up, quite unwittingly, with a gang of bootleggers. Very good — some of it may amuse the children. LILLY TURNER (Warners)— Ruth Chatterton marries a bum who turns out to be a bigamist. From then on the story becomes more and more sordid and unpleasant. Not recommended. • • THE LITTLE GIANT (Warners)— Edward G. Robinson is the racketeer who has gone high-hat in this one. It's more of a comedy than a drama and Eddie proves that he's a swell comedian, too. Mary Astor plays opposite him. Very good — kids may enjoy it. • LUCKY DOG (Universal) — Chic Sale appears in this without his specs and beard. It's the simple tale of a man and his unbounding love for his dog. Perfect if you're a dog lover. Good for the kids. • • THE MASQUERADER (United Artists)— Dual role story with Ronald Colman as both the wicked man and the good man. Elissa Landi is the wife of the wicked man but she falls in love with the good man. Very good — okay for children. » THE MAYOR OF HELL (Warner) — Reviewed in section starting on page 6. • MEN MUST FIGHT ( M-G-M)— Excellent preachment against the horrors of war — with Diana Wynyard and Phillips Holmes. Very good— dull for children, though. « THE MIND READER (Warners)— Warren William and Constance Cummings in the story of a fortune teller who makes a lot of money at the racket and then gives it up for the sake of his wife, only to sneak back to it again — with dramatic consequences. Very good — might amuse the children. • MURDERS IN THE ZOO ( Paramount)— Pretty much of a horror picture, all of the action taking place in a zoo. Lionel Atwill once again plavs an insane person who perpetrates the gruesome atrocities. Very good — okay for children if you think it's not harmful for them to be scared. • THE NARROW CORNER (Warner) — Reviewed in section starting on page 6. • THE NUISANCE ( M-G-M )— Reviewed last month as "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break)— Lee Tracy as an ambulance-chasing lawyer does excellently in this amusing and dramatic piece. Madge Evans. Frank Morgan, and Charles Butterworth are also in it. Very good — not harmful to the kids. • OUR BETTERS ( RKO-Radio) —Constance Bennett overacting a bit as the society queen of London. The story isn't bad, though, and the lines excellent. Gilbert Roland and Violet Kemble Cooper do well.